Unable to load i915kms

[Denny Lin]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:59:54AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> this seems to be wrong:
> 
> > 13    1 0xffffffff8167a000 7019     i915.ko
> > 14    1 0xffffffff81682000 111c4    drm.ko
> > 
> From my machine:
> 
>  2    1 0xffffffff817e4000 aee0     sem.ko
>  3    1 0xffffffff81a12000 9db3     linprocfs.ko
>  4    1 0xffffffff81a1c000 587a5    linux.ko
>  5    1 0xffffffff81a75000 3900     ums.ko
>  6    1 0xffffffff81a79000 2b0d     uhid.ko
>  7    1 0xffffffff81a7c000 1b7a1    ng_btsocket.ko
>  8    1 0xffffffff81a98000 ba58     netgraph.ko
>  9    1 0xffffffff81aa4000 118b     ng_bluetooth.ko
> 10    1 0xffffffff81aa6000 a9f3     fuse.ko
> 11    1 0xffffffff81ab1000 69298    i915kms.ko
> 12    1 0xffffffff81b1b000 1ba2     iicbb.ko
> 13    4 0xffffffff81b1d000 1ddb     iicbus.ko
> 14    1 0xffffffff81b1f000 1cd5     iic.ko
> 15    1 0xffffffff81b21000 32386    drm2.ko
> 16    1 0xffffffff81b54000 241      acpi_call.ko
> 
> So, why did drm.ko and i915.ko make it into your kernel?

Both are built by default, but only drm.ko and i915.ko are loaded
automatically. i915kms.ko has to loaded manually:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-May/011857.html

I do have i915kms and drm2.ko, but every time I try to load i915kms.ko,
the computer blacks out.

> > I have WITH_KMS=YES and WITH_NEW_XORG=YES in /etc/make.conf. I also
> > rebuilt xorg-* and xf86-video-intel after updating to r238858.
> > 
> > Xorg previously worked on my laptop with all.14.3.patch on top of
> > -CURRENT from around mid-April, so I'm not sure what went wrong.
> > 
> I did not touch this machine since 16.07.12.
> 
> Maybe your patches affected something. Can you download a fresh source
> tree?

I used a new checkout when I updated to r238858, so this shouldn't be
a problem.

-- 
Denny Lin